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2. Plan of the presentation
• What is Android ?
• Origin of Android
• History of Android
• Features
• Android Versions and Popularity
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3. What is android ?
• Android is an operating system ‘’ OS ‘’ developed
to be used for touching screen devices, cell
phones, smartphones, and tablets …
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Android
Smart
Phones
Tablets
Touching
screen
devices
4. Origin of Android
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• Android is an OS developed by Google based on modified version of
Linux kernel and other software.
• Founders: Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White
founded Android Inc. in 2003
• Initial release date: 23/9/2008 ( With HTC Dream)
• Developers: Specially Google, Andy Rubin, Baidu …
5. History and evolution of Android OS
2003 The founding of Android Inc.
2004
The project changed to be an OS for
smartphones
2005 Android Inc. bought by Google
2007
Founding of the Open Handset Alliance
between dozens of technology and mobile
phones companies (LG,Samsung
2008
‘’T-Mobile G1 ‘’ First mobile released with an
Android operating system
2012
Android surpassed IOS and became the most
popular OS used for mobiles
2020 75% of mobiles phones runs Android
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6. Features
Android has a lot of amazing features like:
• Beautiful UI: Android OS has basic screen that provides a beautiful
and intuitive user interface
• Connectivity and media support
• Storage: SQLite, and a memory card can be added to the device
• Web browser: Based on the open-source WebKit layout engine with
Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine supporting HTML5 and CSS3
• Multi-tasking: User can run simultaneously different programs,
applications and tasks at the same time
• Furthermore, resizable widgets, multi language, Wi-Fi direct and
android beam and a lot of more options
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